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>>58382970
I'm a big fan of thermal/energy coal, so that's making the choice even harder. Globally, coal is doing gangbusters, setting production and consumption records each year, but in Western countries thermal coal is dying, which means most of the coal industry is dying.

>>58302611
I don't want to say where exactly, because that could identify the mine, but in the northwest of Colorado.

>>58186854
Warrior Met uses longwall systems in their two operating mines and this makes their coal significantly cheaper to produce than the many low coal, room and pillar met coal mines of southern West Virginia.

>>58116599
Unfortunately, coal has little nutritional value. :(

>>58087488
Colorado has some of the most fascinating coal mining history in the USA. In the early 1900s, 10% of Colorado entire labor force was employed in coal. The quality of Colorado coals is also very good: low ash, low sulfur, high energy density.
These are mostly Cretaceous age coals.
Then of course there was a Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Coal Wars of 1914, perhaps the bloodiest labor dispute in U.S. history.
And then, Colorado has long been a center for mining of minerals other than coal too. Very fascinating state, historically. Too bad Denver has fallen so far, so fast.